Reports
Self-serve reports for booking compliance, asset utilization, custody, idle inventory, and more — with charts, CSV export, and PDF download.
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Reports
Reports turn the day-to-day data Shelf already collects — bookings, custody changes, asset activity — into answers. Pick a report, set a timeframe, optionally filter by category or location, and read the result. No SQL, no spreadsheet exports to wrangle, no separate BI tool.
What You Can Report On
Reports cover the parts of the workflow operations managers are usually asked about: who is overdue, what gets booked, what sits idle, and how things are distributed across the inventory.
Booking Reports
- Booking Compliance — On-time checkouts, late returns, and overdue items across the timeframe you pick. Filter by status, custodian, or location.
- Top Booked Assets — The most frequently booked assets and their utilization patterns. Useful for capacity planning and replacement decisions.
- Monthly Booking Trends — Booking volume over time with month-over-month comparisons.
- Overdue Items — A live view of every booking that is currently past its end date. Filter by custodian or location to chase down what is missing right now.
Asset Reports
- Asset Inventory — A complete snapshot of the inventory with category, location, and status filters. The fastest way to produce a list for an insurance audit or board report.
- Asset Activity Summary — Activity history across all assets — changes, custody handovers, and bookings.
- Asset Utilization — How effectively each asset is being used, based on booking and custody time.
- Idle Assets — Assets that have not been booked or checked out recently. Surfaces equipment that may be candidates for redistribution or retirement.
- Asset Distribution — Breakdown by category, location, and status for inventory planning.
Custody Reports
- Custody Snapshot — A live view of every asset currently in custody and the team member it is assigned to.
How Reports Work
Pick a Report
The reports index lists every report grouped by category — bookings, assets, custody. Each card describes what the report shows; click in to run it.
Set the Timeframe
Time-based reports include a timeframe picker with presets for the last 7 / 30 / 90 days, this or last month, this quarter, this year, all time, or a custom range. Snapshot reports (Asset Inventory, Custody Snapshot, Overdue Items) reflect the current state of the workspace and do not need a timeframe.
Filter to the Slice You Care About
Each report exposes filters that match how the underlying data is organized. Booking Compliance filters by status, custodian, and location. Top Booked Assets filters by category and location. The filters are saved in the URL, so you can bookmark or share a specific report view.
Read the Numbers
Reports combine KPI cards for headline numbers, charts for trends and distributions, and tables for the underlying records. Compliance and utilization reports use color to flag entries that need attention.
Export the Result
Every report can be exported to CSV for further analysis in a spreadsheet or BI tool. Chart-based reports can additionally be downloaded as a PDF that captures the rendered visualization alongside the data — handy for board packs and customer reviews. Tabular-only reports (Asset Inventory, Custody Snapshot, Overdue Items, Idle Assets) export to CSV.
Why It Matters
Stop Reconstructing Data Manually
Before reports, answering "how many bookings were returned late last quarter?" meant exporting bookings to CSV and writing formulas. Now it is a report you can run in seconds and export with one click.
Catch Problems Before They Compound
The Overdue Items and Booking Compliance reports surface the small leaks — late returns, ignored bookings, custody assignments that drag on — that turn into lost equipment.
Justify Inventory Decisions
The Idle Assets and Asset Utilization reports show what is actually being used and what is not. Use them to defend equipment budgets, redistribute under-used assets between teams, or retire what nobody is booking anymore.
Reduce Custodian Disputes
The Custody Snapshot report makes it impossible to argue about who has what — every asset currently in custody is listed with the assigned team member.
Benefits
- Self-serve — Operations managers run reports themselves, without waiting on engineering or exporting to BI tools
- Filterable — Every report supports filters that match how teams already organize their inventory
- Shareable — URLs encode the filters, so a saved view can be sent to a colleague or bookmarked
- Exportable — CSV for analysis, PDF for distribution
- Live where it matters — Snapshot reports (Custody, Overdue, Inventory) always reflect current state
Related
- Dashboard — for the always-on operational view
- Bookings — booking compliance reports build on the booking data captured here
- Custody — custody snapshot reports build on the custody data captured here
- Audits — audits provide a separate path to verify inventory against reality
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